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I am just about finished with my latest resto project L110. I have to install LE5-9's in place of the badly damaged LE5-10's. I wonder if anyone has thoughts about the pro's and cons of such a swap. I carefully painted the LE5-9's flanges black and then shot satin lacquer over them to give a tough hard shell (NOT the cones, just the flanges;) ) Here are some photos
Holy pushed in dustcap Batman!
Here is the blacked out version
See my posts on the LE5 series (Yes, that Techbot has yet to post the matrix in the tech section :banghead: ).
The 2105H/LE5H/LE5-9/LE5-11 is not the intended replacement for the LE5-10/LE5-12.
Try it anyway and adjust the L-Pad accordingly.
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Oh yeah, thanks to Gordon's post I notice you have the older inverted paper dust caps on those particular LE5-9's. Carefully cut them out and replace them with the black aluminum dust caps. You should be able to order them from Pro Parts.
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The LE5-9 has a bit of a different response, and is slightly more efficient than the LE5-10. The dustcap on the LE5-9 tends to give it a bit more upper midrange response "rise", and the edge-wound voice coil makes it a bit more efficient than the LE5-10, which has a round-wire coil...
Probably will work "OK", but probably won't have as "smooth" of a midrange presentation as the stock L110...
Here's Giskards' excellent le5 Matrix ( again )
( with apologies to John Nebels' hard drives - :nanana: ).
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these are the LE5-9's I had left over from my L220's after swapping them out for the 2420/2312's . The info is MUCH appreciated. I'll hear what the difference is when I get them back together